Garment-display rack.



F. J. HUGHES.

GARMENT DISPLAY RACK.

FILED JULY 7,1911.

Patented July 2, 1912.

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APPLIOATION FILED JULY 7,1011.

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FRANK J. HUGHES, or MANSFIELD, onto, nssreiron we run rr ae'rrcnr. nrsrL Y RACK COMPANY, or MANsFInLnoHm, A CORPORATION or QHIQ.

GARMENT-DISPLAY RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1912.

Application filed July 7, 1911. Serial No. 637,376.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. HUGI-ms, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gar: ment-Display Racks, of which the following .is a specification.

My invention relates to movable display racks for garments and other merchandise and more particularly to devices used in stores and like places for exhibition purposes.

i The objects of my invention are to provide a novel method of mounting the carriage on trucks which will give a different speed to the travel of the carriage than is imparted to the trucks; to provide means of preventing the carriage from tilting; to provide means of mounting the rotative parts of the operating mechanism on ball bearings; to

rovide means of locking the rack shaft and 1ts supporting parts against rotation; to provide means of locking and releasing the rotating parts when the carriage is moved to pre-determined points on the tracks. I attain these and other objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which;

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a showcase showing my rotating rack and its operating mechanism applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the rack operating mechanism. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional side elevation of the locking and operating mech anism showing the position of the parts when the rack is in an intermediate position. Fig. 4; is a cross-sectional side elevation of the locking mechanism showing the position of the parts of the locking mechanism when the rack is in its rear position. Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional side elevation of the locking mechanism showing the position of the parts when the rack is in its forward position and adapted to be rotated. Fig. 6

- is a plan view of the disk and a part of the locking mechanism showing a roller engaged in one of the notches. Fig. 7 is the same view as Fig. 6 except the roller is shown out of engagement with the notch in. the disk. Fi 8 is a side elevation of the operating mechanism of the display rack showing the difference in travel in full and dotted lines between, the carriage and the trucks upon which it is mounted.v

In the drawings, reference numerals 1 and 2 represent tracks formed of channel iron or the like. Rollers 3-3 and 4l-4 are provided with grooved portions 5 and 6 and connected together by rods 7 and 8 forming trucks. A carriage is provided comprising a supporting member 8 and depending side bars 9 and 10. The side bars 9 and 10 are made of such a width as will fit within and rest upon the bottom of the grooved portions 5 and 6 of the rollers.

The peripheries of the rollers 33 and 4;4 run upon the bottom 11 of the channel tracks and when movement is imparted to the carriage which rests and runs on the grooves 5 and 6 of the rollers 3-3 and 1---1, the carriage will move forward with respect to the rollers one-half the distance that the rollers move forward with respect to the tracks upon which they bear because the diameter of the bot-tom of the groove portions are only one-half the diameter of the peripheries of the rollers. It will, of course, be apparent thatthe rate of travel of the carriage as compared with the travel of the trucks can be varied by changing the diameter of the bottom of the grooved portions of the rollers.

Arms 12 and 13 are secured to the sides of the channel tracks and extend up over the top carriage. Rollers 14 and 15 are attached to the upper extremities of the arms 12 and 13 and their peripheries contact with the upper surface of the carriage acting as a guide for the carriage and preventing it from tilting.

A hollow column 16 with legs 17, 18 and 19 is fastened to the carriage through the medium of cap screws 20. A supporting base 21 is rigidly fastened to the carriage underneath the legs of the column by bolts 22 and is provided with a race-way 23. A vertical rotating rack shaft 24 is inserted in the central aperture 25 provided in the base and carries a rack 25. A flanged disk 26 is fitted to the shaft and rigidly fastened thereto by the set screw 27. The flanged disk on its under face is provided with a race-way 28 wich corresponds and coincides with the race-way 23 thereby forming ball bearings between the disk and the base for the balls 28.

The upper extremity of the column is provided with a race-way 29. A flanged sleeve bearing 30 is fitted to the shaft 24, rigidly secured thereto by the bolt 31 and provided with a race-way 32 which coincides and corresponds with the race-way 29 formed on the upper extremity of the column forming ball bearings between the top of the column and the flanged sleeve bearing for the balls 32.

A bracket 33 is securely fastened by bolts 34 to the carriage and is provided with two Lip-standing portions 35 and 36. A bolt 37 is fitted to slide longitudinally in an aperture 37 provided in the up-standing portion 35 and its end is bifurcated to receive the roller 38 which is carried by the pin 39. The opposite end of the bolt 37 is provided with a reduced portion 40 to receive a coil spring 41, one end of which abuts against the inner surface of the upstanding portion 36 and the opposite end against the shouldered portion 42 of the bolt normally exerting a pressure against the bolt 37 to force the roller 38 which it carries in contact with the periphery 43 of the disk or into engagement with the notches 4444.

The upstanding portion 36 of the bracket is provided with a vertical central aperture formed to fit a vertically movable bolt 44. The bolt 44, carries a roller 45 on its lower extremity which runs over the top of an angular track 46 and engages the depression 47 when the carriage is moved to its rearward position and the notch 48 when it is moved to its forward position. A shoulder 49 is formed adjacent tothe upper extremity of the vertical portion 36 and the part 49 of the bolt 44 is reduced in size to form a shoulder 50. A coil spring 51 surrounds the reduced part 49 of the bolt 44 and abuts against the shouldered portions 49 and 50 normally but yieldingly exerting a downward pressure against the bolt 44 to hold the roller 45 in contact with the angular track 46 and press it into engagement with the notches 47 or 48 according to the position of the carriage.

The bolt 44' is provided with an aperture 52 which is alined with the apertures 53 and 54 when the rack is in its forward position and the roller 45 in the depression 48, at which time the rack can be rotated but is normally held out of alineme'nt with the apertures 52 and 53. The operating mechanism of the rack is yieldingly held from rotating by the roller 38 when the rack is in itsforward position.

When the rack is being pushed into the case 55, the roller 38 carried by the bolt 44 is forced to ride upon the top of the track 46 compressing the coil spring 51 and forcing the aperture 52 in the bolt out of alinement with the apertures 53 and 54 and any tendency of the rack to rotate is prevented by the end 40 of the bolt 37 coming in contact with the side of the bolt 44 thus effectually locking the rack and operating mechanism against rotation.

Attention is called to the fact that when the roller 38 reaches the depression 47, which is not as deep as the depression 48, it is force-dto engage therewith by the spring 51 and further rearward movement prevented. When it is desired to pull the rack to its forward position, the roller 38 travels upon the top of the angular track 46 until it reaches the depression 48 when it is forced into engagement therewith and the depth is such that the aperture 52 in the bolt alines with the apertures 53 and 54 of the portion 36 and the operating mechanism and rack are in position to be rotated as the end 40 of the bolt 37 can pass through the alined apertures thereby giving suflicient yielding movement to the bolt 37 to permit the roller 38 to ride out of either depression leaving it in yielding contact with the periphery of the disk whereby the rack and operating mechanism can be rotated if desired. Stops a and b are fastened to the carriage and con tact with stop plates 0 and d to provide additional positive stops for the carriage at each end of its travel.

It will be observed that when the roller 45 is in the depression 38, at which time the shaft 40 is alined with the apertures 52 and 53 and the end of the bolt 40 entered into the aperture 52, rearward movement of the carriage is prevented as the bolt 44 can have no upward movement to release the carriage as it is firmly held against any movement by the end of the shaft 40.

WVhat I claim is:

1. A display rack comprising a carriage, a garment supporting device mounted on the carriage, channeled parallel tracks, trucks to run in said channel tracks and movably support said carriage, arms fitted to the side of said tracks, rollers carried by said arms and adapted to cont-act with the upper portion of the upper surface of the carriage to prevent tilting.

2. In a garment display rack, the combi nation of tracks, trucks to run upon said tracks, a carriage movably mounted on said trucks, rotating means to support the rack, an angular track provided with depressions, a bracket provided with two upstanding portions, a bolt fitted to an aperture on one upstanding portion to slide in a vertical direction, a roller attached to said bolt, means to normally but yieldingly hold the roller in contact with the angular track and force it into engagement with the depression formed in the track, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a garment display rack, the combination of tracks, trucks to run upon said tracks, a carriage movably mounted on said trucks, rotating means to support the rack, an angular track provided w1th depressions, a bracket provided with two upstanding portions, a bolt having a transverse aperture therein fitted to an aperture in one upstanding portion to.slide in a vertical direction, a roller attached to said bolt, means to normally but yieldingly hold the roller in contact with the angular track and force it into engagement with the depression formed in the track, a bolt fitted to an aperture in the other upstanding portion to slide under compression in a horizontal direction when the aperture in the vertically 'slidable bolt is alined with the apertures in the upstanding portion, as andfor the purpose described.

4. A display rack comprising a carriage, a rotating supporting device mounted on said carriage, channel parallel tracks, trucks to run in said channel tracks, a carriage movably supported by said trucks, an angular track provided with depressions of different depths arranged between said channel tracks, a sliding vertical bolt fitted to the carriage and adapted to engage said depressions, a sliding horizontal bolt adapted to contact with said vertical bolt whereby when the carriage is in its rearward position it is securely locked and prevented from rotating and when the carriage is in its forward position outside the casing the vertical sliding bolt engages the depression and permits the carriage to be rotated.

5. A display rack comprising a carriage, a rotating supporting device mounted on said carriage, a member having two upstanding portions mounted on said carriage, a vertical sliding bolt having an aperture therein to co-incide with apertures in the upstanding portion fitted to slide in said upstanding portion, a horizontally sliding member fitted to the other upstanding portion, one end of said horizontally sliding member being adapted to pass through the apertures in the upstanding member and the apertures in the vertically sliding bolt, and the opposite end of said horizontally sliding member being adapted to engage with notches in the rotating supporting device, substantially as described and set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK J. HUGHES.

Witnesses:

J orm H. Coss, PEARL M. ACKERMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

